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Re:Ion Author

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 28, 2006 04:36 AM

Agreed - antialiasing = blurry and they give me eye strain. The required stages are:

0)Option: use only the old 100dpi, bitmap fonts. Else...

1)Install the freetype library *with* the (patented) bytecode interpreter.

2)Install some well-hinted (=not designed for A-A) fonts; the MS corefonts are the best

3)KDE - set everything to be the MS core fonts (eg Tahoma), antialiasing on but only above 15pt.

4)GTK: start gnome-font-properties, do the same.

5)If running KDE, GTK apps will look horrid. Start gnome-settings-daemon in the background to fix it.

HTH - Richard

Return to Ion, the efficient window manager